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ladram
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It certainly can,t be Scott as a 16 year old playing for Llanelli Youth if my memory serves me right scored 36 tries in a season ,playing against many boys three years older than him . Scott even at that young age had great upper body strength,and his unique body position with his low centre of gravity was superb
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oh for another scott.
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Ffidel Bennett
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I'm not sure what's happened here as the original quote is from supertaf but the 1st reply is mine and starts with "I'm old enough......
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Sorry should have quoted his post
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supertaf
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It certainly can,t be Scott as a 16 year old playing for Llanelli Youth if my memory serves me right scored 36 tries in a season ,playing against many boys three years older than him . Scott even at that young age had great upper body strength,and his unique body position with his low centre of gravity was superb
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My memory of Scott as a less well built youngster was with blonde hair scoring against Pooler at Pooler park. 92-93 as its on the scarlet fever video. Didn't look a massive lad then but you could tell he was class.
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157cb
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My memory of Scott as a less well built youngster was with blonde hair scoring against Pooler at Pooler park. 92-93 as its on the scarlet fever video. Didn't look a massive lad then but you could tell he was class. [/QUOTE]
He was a natural ball-carrier even at a young age Mark,as you saying probably was,nt the biggest but as I said his low centre of gravity made him very difficult to tackle .Scott went on to be Wales best carrying forwards we have ever produced . Going back to Tom Phillips a huge game from him last night .
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Hendre
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Tom Phillips and Dan Jones both have what it takes to succeed at pro level. Dafydd Hughes is solid enough, though the Scarlets have more than enough hookers, Shaun Evans is an average joe, plenty of players have workrate, he's too small for a 6 and so has been moved to 7 which isn't a natural position for him. Good win for the u20s without being particularly impressive. Let's not forget some of these boys are still of school age and the majority are still of youth age and so they have plenty of developing to do as have other boys who aren't in the age grade frame!
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Ffidel Bennett
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Last night Shaun Evans gave the impression that he had been playing 7 for years. Admittedly he's not big but Pocock has played 8 for Australia and he's not tall.
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I still wake up late at night and think of what might have been when tim stimpson hit that jammy penalty1
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Perhaps he means Hooper, who's 6'0". Hooper, Pocock, they're a team anyway and seemingly interchangeable on the field. Anyway, thought Phillips looked the most natural 6 we've produced since Shingler. And he looked much older than 19, but probably because of the collosal beard and old-school head-tape. |
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Watched Llanelli v Australia 92 last night and noticed Perego was 6ft 14.7 stone and Lyn Jones was on the other flank. I don't know what Lyn was weighing in at but he was most likley smaller.
Colin Bach played a blinder that day even putting John Eales out of the game early on when he fell on him. Those were the days and sad to say they'll never be repeated.
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Perego was a beast of a 6( not size but presence). Most probably the best technical tackling 6 we've ever produced.dont make them like that no more.He was very lucky in the fact he had monsters as no.8's around him to take on the burden of carrying the ball. He and lyn could concentrate on their primary jobs - tackling and turnovers. |
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Llywarch
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Pocock is not massive. He's about the same height as Hooper but a good stone heavier, in terms of weight neither of them are huge. In fact what makes pocock so good over the ball is that he is so small.
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He was a natural ball-carrier even at a young age Mark,as you saying probably was,nt the biggest but as I said his low centre of gravity made him very difficult to tackle .Scott went on to be Wales best carrying forwards we have ever produced . Going back to Tom Phillips a huge game from him last night . [/QUOTE]
Agree with that and I think Tom has the minerals to go far
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Agree with that and I think Tom has the minerals to go far Tom was immense on Friday night Mark ,great work rate and lead from the front .
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Pocock is down as a 115kg |
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104 Kg and 6'2" Pocock is down as according to Wikipedia.
Not massive by any standard. Edited by haydn_davies - 09 February 2016 at 7:19am |
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